You Can Buy Dolly Parton's Former Nashville House

Calling all Dolly Parton fans! The country icon and Tennessee native's former Nashville house just went on the market, and you could call it home for $1.2 million.

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The four-bedroom, three-bathroom house was originally built in 1941 and is situated on 2.4 beautiful acres of land. In 1996, the current owners, James and Oveta Pyburn, bought the property at 3146 Glencliff Road from Dolly Parton and Carl Dean, who had owned it since 1980—but they had no idea about the house's claim to fame when they first fell in love with it.

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"When [the realtor] told me Dolly—I've always loved her because I love to sing too, and she's one of the people—you know, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton—I grew up with," Oveta tells CountryLiving.com. "Isn't that crazy? To know that I lived in a place that she bought, even though it's in a little neighborhood that's not nothing—but it's such a special-feeling house."

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For an extra $5,000, the couple purchased it fully furnished from the star, though they've since switched out the decor and added a 1,500-square-foot "building out back", which they use for karaoke parties (Dolly Parton's "Jolene" is naturally one of Oveta's go-to songs).

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Oveta Pyburn via Airbnb

The Pyburns did, however, hold onto a signed Dolly Parton poster they found rolled up under the stairwell and have since framed, as well as a stained glass window which was a 44th birthday present to Dolly from ones "Pete and Dot"—both of which they plan on leaving in the house for the next owners. "It just needs to be there, you know?" Oveta says.

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Oveta Pyburn via Airbnb

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The upstairs apartment of the home is currently listed on Airbnb simply as a "Very Private and Quiet Getaway". On both the short-term rental site and their personal website, the Pyburns don't mention the name Parton at all, calling the space simply "Dolly's Airbnb" and "Dolly's Getaway," but hinting in the description, "Our home was previously owned by a Very Famous Country Music Celebrity, Guess Who?"

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The Pyburns have put the the property on the market before, and when they did Oveta received a mysterious phone call from a woman claiming to be Dolly and considering buying it back. "I thought somebody was just kidding me," Oveta says. "I don't know to this day if it was her or not, but I kept that number, but nobody ever answered. She said, '$500,000? Isn't that a little steep?'" (At the moment, the home's Zestimate on Zillow is listed as $316,299.)

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But Oveta doesn't think so—not for Dolly or for anybody—especially considering the space's special history. "If my husband and I were both in our 30s or 40s, there's no way, form or fashion I would leave," Oveta says. "But I'm 63 and I've had two back surgeries, and I know when it's time to downsize … No money could buy it if I was younger. I wouldn't even have the desire to get rid of it."

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